Before LMX theory,researchers treated leadership as something ______.
A) leaders did toward all of their followers
B) present within the individual actions of followers
C) existing between the leader and each of his or her followers
D) as an exclusively two-way, one-dimensional form of communication

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Before Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory, leadership was generally viewed as a uniform set of behaviors that leaders applied to all of their followers, without considering the unique relationships that might exist between a leader and each individual follower. LMX theory introduced the idea that leaders develop different types of relationships with different followers.

Before LMX Theory,researchers Treated Leadership as Something ______